Simone Bitton was born in Rabat in 1955, and holds both Moroccan and French nationalities. She has made more than twenty documentary films, which have been selected for and won awards at prestigious festivals. From archive films (Palestine, Story of a Land, 1997) to film essays (Wall, 2004), political biographies (Ben Barka, l’équation marocaine, 1998) and portraits of artists (Mahmoud Darwich, 1998), her work combines rigour and personal perspective. All her films bear witness to his commitment to a better representation of the news, history and cultures of the Middle East and North Africa.